Len Metcalf and Shirley Steel’s Creative Retreat is set to be a week of total immersion in your photography. Even if you are not feeling particularly creative, after a few days surrounded by Len, Shirley and your fellow photographers, the energy flows and inspiration will strike!

Dates: Sunday 11th to Friday 16th May 2025

Location: Jervis Bay, NSW, Australia

This workshop is devoted to encouraging your creativity. We love to work on a project, or several projects over the course of the week so that you leave with completed artworks to take home and enjoy. We love book making and creating something tangible with our photographs so there will be lots of exciting supplies on hand to help facilitate printing and making.

Revel in Len and Shirley's gentle, supportive teaching style as you participate in lessons and shoots designed to nurture and develop your work. You will receive valuable feedback on your photographs and projects from the group as you all work together to develop your ideas. There is energy and inspiration. These insights help you take your photography to new heights of excellence.

Accommodation is a beautiful shared house in Jervis Bay. We will live together and create together. We will have everything we need, even gorgeous grounds to explore and photograph. All meals are provided to allow you to focus your time on your own work. We so rarely get the opportunity to concentrate fully on developing our own creativity and to follow our dreams.

There will be lots of opportunities to explore Jervis Bay and the local area with early morning and sunset shoots. During the day we will be working on our processing and our projects, reviewing our work, making some books, printing out our favourite images.

The week culminates with our own private exhibition. This is a wonderful excuse to print our work, get it up on the wall and appreciate each others work.

Previously, the retreat has been focused on abstract photography, however, this is not for everyone, so it is now simply the creative retreat. If abstract photography is your passion this retreat is still for you. Len and Shirley will tailor their teachings to the needs of the group, abstract or otherwise.

To find out more information, or to make a booking, please head to the website here: https://www.lensschool.com/workshops-tours/p/the-abstract-retreat

You can email hello@lensschool.com if you have any questions about this workshop.

For information on all of Len’s 2025 workshops and tours, please visit this link: https://www.lensschool.com/photography-workshops-and-tours

Photographs copyright © Len Metcalf and Shirley Steel 2024